A few years ago the local ISPs over here got tired of this discussion and started advertising their services as "between X/2 and X Mbps", where X was what they had previously said "up to". Turned out better for everyone.
The interesting thing about it however was that it was actually better than the Windows version. Starting with the 5.x version Mac IE had a different engine, they used the same one before that. It was actually the first browser to fully support CSS 1.
Take transparent PNGs as an example. Everyone who have ever tried to use them with IE 6 on Windows knows what a pain it is. IE 5 on Macs supported them.
Even though IE for Mac is discontinued they still use the engine in their other Mac products. Too bad for them they never used it on Windows or IE 6 would not have been as bad as it was.
I don't think that much has been lost at all. The situation could have been worse. Thanks to the Illumos project we will hopefully have a living OpenSolars project once again, however without any help from Oracle. I would day that we are still in a very early stage and it's hard to make any conclusions at this point. It will interesting to see what happens within the next year before, it will probably take at least that much time before we can say anything with good confidence.
Well, it's not really that simple. The editor in chief is directly responsible for what is published. A typical situation would be if a news paper commits copyright infringement, then the editor in chief is directly responsible and may be personally fined for that. Registering does not allow you to break the law.
The legislation does actually give some protection, and that includes things like not having to reveal your sources. Not even the police can force a registered news media to reveal their sources. That's were the protection is targeted, not at the media itself.
People here are less resistant to change and have a tiny bit more of patience to adapt to new things. They do not equate "new/unknown" with "crap" as other countries do.
Avoid Perl. Its not a clean enough version of objects. I highly recommend it later on, but get some more updated theory first.
I would actually recommend it, but only if we're talking Perl 6. The changes are so big compared to Perl 5 that I would almost call it more closely related to Ruby than to Perl 5. Interesting language, too bad I don't have as much time as I would like to play with it.
I'm not at all an expert on how WordPress themes works. But isn't it just as simple that the theme only call functions in WordPress and that no actual WordPress code have to be copied into the theme? In that case, couldn't you argue that it just happens that the theme work with WordPress?
To put this to its edge. What would happen if someone implemented a different blog engine that just happened to have the same theme API as WordPress but licensed it under the BSD license?
According to the Sun engineers I've talked to it all has to do with a really old license agreement between Apple and Sun that they can't change for now. It originates from the very early days of Java, a time when Apple was almost desperate to get more attention to the Mac and saw Java as a lifesaver as applications developed for it would almost automatically work on the Mac as well. So they basically gave Sun a big load of money in exchange for the exclusive rights to make Java for the Mac platform. That gave them a good opportunity to also make Java fully integrated on the Mac and back then they actually made a good job doing that. It's too bad that their dedication have slowly declined as the Mac gained more popularity over the years.
Due to this Sun/Oracle is basically forbidden to directly release Java for Mac OS X until the agreement expire or Apple decides to make a new agreement. The only practical solution they proposed was to use the BSD port of OpenJDK. You won't have the Aqua UI and I think you have to deal with X11, but you will have an overall better and newer Java.
The Java Language Specification is owned by Sun/Oracle and is offered online for free, with a few restrictions however. As an example you are only allowed to print it once and not make any copies of it.
The Java software platform is a piece of software licensed as GPL. Anyone can take it, modify it and give it away to someone else.
So the answer varies depending on what you mean with Java. While the phenomenon known as Java may in theory be owned by Oracle it is in practive decoupled enough to be independent.
Oh no, I was refering to when you want to save the files you are working with and that it is usually easier if you boot from a USB stick instead of a CD.:-)
There's a university with a campus, and yet it doesn't have cell phone coverage? I guess it's just that here in Norway there's about 7 universities, obviously all with coverage. I don't even recall hearing of a college that didn't have it. This sounds like more of a remote outpost than a university to me, but kudos for an overinflated name.
Actually, the word "university" has slightly different meaning around the world. You pointed out Norway and over there the term is protected by law. No one can start their own university, that's why there aren't that many of them. The ones that exists also tend to be quite large.
In the U.S. there is a difference between private and state universities, compared to Norway which only have the equivalence of state universities. Someone may fund their own relatively small private university in a remote location, that would be impossible in Norway due to the law.
Sure. Some audio, navigation and VoIP applications will benefit from the "multitasking" capability in iOS 4. I don't think that anyone have anything at all against it. It is a good thing for many users.
However, calling it multitasking is VERY misleading since it gives the impression that several applications is actually running as normal at the same time. That is what people mean when they say multitasking. That is what we are used to from regular computers as well as some other modern mobile operating systems.
I have already met several people who have upgraded to iOS 4 and expected that "multitasking" would actually mean the same thing that it usually does. I think that Apple would have gained much more from this if they would have said no, we are not going to have multitasking (yet), what we have is something we call fast app switching and it will also be a good thing.
hirdly, this is why IRC is never ran on its official low numbered port, but on 6667 - there is NO REASON to run IRCd as root - I don't care how safe you think the code is - it's too huge of a target.
I am looking at it the other way around. There is not really any reasons now to require root access in order to listen on ports below 1024.
It made a lot of sense during the 70's and 80's, that you could basically trust individual computers and that some untrusted user would not set up a service that looked official and legitimate. But the time has changed and we have things like cryptographic software that take much of that away.
Actually almost every service that listens on ports below 1024 could run without superuser privileges. The fact that we are basically forced to run them as such is much worse than the false sense of security that the 1024 port limit gives us.
I don't get why school/educational institutions use Macs. 99% of businesses use Windows. Don't they want there kids to be prepared when they leave schools? This is once again a dumb school administration making a decision in a vacuum
AC
A few years ago when I was in high school we had a similar program. I say similar because it differed in two ways. 1. We had iBooks and 2. the school completely funded it, like they already did with everything else that we used, like pencils, meals, bus tickets etc.
It made me think a bit closer on why we have these programs and my conclusion is that most people actually get it wrong at first. It is not about making students familiar with computers. It is not about teaching them Office. It's not about writing papers in Word. It's not even about programming.
It's about better education.
Ask yourself why we are using pencils in schools. It's not about teaching people about pencils. Sure there may be an introduction for very young pupils in how to use it but that's far from why we have them. It is simply a really good tool for learning.
A computer can also be an insanely good tool for learning.
A lot of teachers get that. Some schools don't and they usually buy netbooks. I'm not saying that netbooks are bad, but when you are basing the decision only on "equipping them with computers" and trying to get away with it as cheaply as possible you are likely to make a bad decision. I have seen quite a lot of schools where they bought cheap laptops, loaded them with locked-down copies of Windows and Word and never really gave it much deeper thoughts on how they could be used in the actual learning process. They only thought of it as a digital pencil. Guess how well it usually turned out.
The important thing is that a computer is so much more than a pencil.
My experience is that these programs is much more effective if you buy decent hardware. It doesn't have to be the most expensive but at least don't go for the cheapest. Then give the students root access and the reinstallation discs just in case they need them and say "Go Play".
It's incredible how creative a student can be when it comes to finding good use for a computer if they have tools that are designed for that.
Apple gets that and I think that's why so many schools use them. They have been doing this for a long time. The other players are starting to get it just now while Apple has already been talking about it for over ten years.
As of Xcode 3.2 they give you the choice of four compilers. GCC 4.0, GCC 4.2, LLVM GCC 4.2 and LLVM Clang 1.0.2. The default compiler is GCC 4.2 due to compatibility reasons but it will likely change to Clang in future versions.
I don't think that this kind of thing is actually regulated on the european level. At least here in Sweden it would be very hard for a university to do something like that (have a hard time believing they would actually want to do something like that) but I guess there is a different situation in England.
Of course it depends very much on exactly that. Here is an example if you don't believe me. If you want to take a picture of someone in Germany you need permission from that person. In Sweden you have the right to take pictures of anything and anyone (police officers included) in public areas no matter what they think about it.
I don't now what the "general case" is, but they certainly are not all more restrictive.
That actually depends very much on which european country you are talking about. The laws in that particular field are as different as a one and a zero can be.
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A few years ago the local ISPs over here got tired of this discussion and started advertising their services as "between X/2 and X Mbps", where X was what they had previously said "up to". Turned out better for everyone.
The interesting thing about it however was that it was actually better than the Windows version. Starting with the 5.x version Mac IE had a different engine, they used the same one before that. It was actually the first browser to fully support CSS 1.
Take transparent PNGs as an example. Everyone who have ever tried to use them with IE 6 on Windows knows what a pain it is. IE 5 on Macs supported them.
Even though IE for Mac is discontinued they still use the engine in their other Mac products. Too bad for them they never used it on Windows or IE 6 would not have been as bad as it was.
I don't think that much has been lost at all. The situation could have been worse. Thanks to the Illumos project we will hopefully have a living OpenSolars project once again, however without any help from Oracle. I would day that we are still in a very early stage and it's hard to make any conclusions at this point. It will interesting to see what happens within the next year before, it will probably take at least that much time before we can say anything with good confidence.
Well, it's not really that simple. The editor in chief is directly responsible for what is published. A typical situation would be if a news paper commits copyright infringement, then the editor in chief is directly responsible and may be personally fined for that. Registering does not allow you to break the law.
The legislation does actually give some protection, and that includes things like not having to reveal your sources. Not even the police can force a registered news media to reveal their sources. That's were the protection is targeted, not at the media itself.
Joyent care very deeply about it.
People here are less resistant to change and have a tiny bit more of patience to adapt to new things. They do not equate "new/unknown" with "crap" as other countries do.
Do they? I have never noticed.
And who defines what a terrorist is? You? Obama? An Afghan family who just got their home bombed? There are two sides of everything.
Avoid Perl. Its not a clean enough version of objects. I highly recommend it later on, but get some more updated theory first.
I would actually recommend it, but only if we're talking Perl 6. The changes are so big compared to Perl 5 that I would almost call it more closely related to Ruby than to Perl 5. Interesting language, too bad I don't have as much time as I would like to play with it.
I'm not at all an expert on how WordPress themes works. But isn't it just as simple that the theme only call functions in WordPress and that no actual WordPress code have to be copied into the theme? In that case, couldn't you argue that it just happens that the theme work with WordPress?
To put this to its edge. What would happen if someone implemented a different blog engine that just happened to have the same theme API as WordPress but licensed it under the BSD license?
According to the Sun engineers I've talked to it all has to do with a really old license agreement between Apple and Sun that they can't change for now. It originates from the very early days of Java, a time when Apple was almost desperate to get more attention to the Mac and saw Java as a lifesaver as applications developed for it would almost automatically work on the Mac as well. So they basically gave Sun a big load of money in exchange for the exclusive rights to make Java for the Mac platform. That gave them a good opportunity to also make Java fully integrated on the Mac and back then they actually made a good job doing that. It's too bad that their dedication have slowly declined as the Mac gained more popularity over the years.
Due to this Sun/Oracle is basically forbidden to directly release Java for Mac OS X until the agreement expire or Apple decides to make a new agreement. The only practical solution they proposed was to use the BSD port of OpenJDK. You won't have the Aqua UI and I think you have to deal with X11, but you will have an overall better and newer Java.
It depends on what you mean when you say Java.
The Java(tm) name is owned by Sun/Oracle.
The Java Language Specification is owned by Sun/Oracle and is offered online for free, with a few restrictions however. As an example you are only allowed to print it once and not make any copies of it.
The Java software platform is a piece of software licensed as GPL. Anyone can take it, modify it and give it away to someone else.
So the answer varies depending on what you mean with Java. While the phenomenon known as Java may in theory be owned by Oracle it is in practive decoupled enough to be independent.
Oh no, I was refering to when you want to save the files you are working with and that it is usually easier if you boot from a USB stick instead of a CD. :-)
I would put my vote on a live USB stick. Usually easier to save to.
There's a university with a campus, and yet it doesn't have cell phone coverage? I guess it's just that here in Norway there's about 7 universities, obviously all with coverage. I don't even recall hearing of a college that didn't have it. This sounds like more of a remote outpost than a university to me, but kudos for an overinflated name.
Actually, the word "university" has slightly different meaning around the world. You pointed out Norway and over there the term is protected by law. No one can start their own university, that's why there aren't that many of them. The ones that exists also tend to be quite large.
In the U.S. there is a difference between private and state universities, compared to Norway which only have the equivalence of state universities. Someone may fund their own relatively small private university in a remote location, that would be impossible in Norway due to the law.
Sure. Some audio, navigation and VoIP applications will benefit from the "multitasking" capability in iOS 4. I don't think that anyone have anything at all against it. It is a good thing for many users.
However, calling it multitasking is VERY misleading since it gives the impression that several applications is actually running as normal at the same time. That is what people mean when they say multitasking. That is what we are used to from regular computers as well as some other modern mobile operating systems.
I have already met several people who have upgraded to iOS 4 and expected that "multitasking" would actually mean the same thing that it usually does. I think that Apple would have gained much more from this if they would have said no, we are not going to have multitasking (yet), what we have is something we call fast app switching and it will also be a good thing.
He also said once that there would be no video iPod.
hirdly, this is why IRC is never ran on its official low numbered port, but on 6667 - there is NO REASON to run IRCd as root - I don't care how safe you think the code is - it's too huge of a target.
I am looking at it the other way around. There is not really any reasons now to require root access in order to listen on ports below 1024.
It made a lot of sense during the 70's and 80's, that you could basically trust individual computers and that some untrusted user would not set up a service that looked official and legitimate. But the time has changed and we have things like cryptographic software that take much of that away.
Actually almost every service that listens on ports below 1024 could run without superuser privileges. The fact that we are basically forced to run them as such is much worse than the false sense of security that the 1024 port limit gives us.
I don't get why school/educational institutions use Macs. 99% of businesses use Windows. Don't they want there kids to be prepared when they leave schools? This is once again a dumb school administration making a decision in a vacuum
AC
A few years ago when I was in high school we had a similar program. I say similar because it differed in two ways. 1. We had iBooks and 2. the school completely funded it, like they already did with everything else that we used, like pencils, meals, bus tickets etc.
It made me think a bit closer on why we have these programs and my conclusion is that most people actually get it wrong at first. It is not about making students familiar with computers. It is not about teaching them Office. It's not about writing papers in Word. It's not even about programming.
It's about better education.
Ask yourself why we are using pencils in schools. It's not about teaching people about pencils. Sure there may be an introduction for very young pupils in how to use it but that's far from why we have them. It is simply a really good tool for learning.
A computer can also be an insanely good tool for learning.
A lot of teachers get that. Some schools don't and they usually buy netbooks. I'm not saying that netbooks are bad, but when you are basing the decision only on "equipping them with computers" and trying to get away with it as cheaply as possible you are likely to make a bad decision. I have seen quite a lot of schools where they bought cheap laptops, loaded them with locked-down copies of Windows and Word and never really gave it much deeper thoughts on how they could be used in the actual learning process. They only thought of it as a digital pencil. Guess how well it usually turned out.
The important thing is that a computer is so much more than a pencil.
My experience is that these programs is much more effective if you buy decent hardware. It doesn't have to be the most expensive but at least don't go for the cheapest. Then give the students root access and the reinstallation discs just in case they need them and say "Go Play".
It's incredible how creative a student can be when it comes to finding good use for a computer if they have tools that are designed for that.
Apple gets that and I think that's why so many schools use them. They have been doing this for a long time. The other players are starting to get it just now while Apple has already been talking about it for over ten years.
As of Xcode 3.2 they give you the choice of four compilers. GCC 4.0, GCC 4.2, LLVM GCC 4.2 and LLVM Clang 1.0.2. The default compiler is GCC 4.2 due to compatibility reasons but it will likely change to Clang in future versions.
Thanks for the heads up. I appreciate it.
Good thing then that it sells in 87 other countries as well.
Don't confuse .uk with .eu.
I don't think that this kind of thing is actually regulated on the european level. At least here in Sweden it would be very hard for a university to do something like that (have a hard time believing they would actually want to do something like that) but I guess there is a different situation in England.
Of course it depends very much on exactly that. Here is an example if you don't believe me. If you want to take a picture of someone in Germany you need permission from that person. In Sweden you have the right to take pictures of anything and anyone (police officers included) in public areas no matter what they think about it.
I don't now what the "general case" is, but they certainly are not all more restrictive.
That actually depends very much on which european country you are talking about. The laws in that particular field are as different as a one and a zero can be.